A Personal View Of War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I NEVER pondered much on warA
Except to think it was inspiringB
To have a cause to battle forA
To hear the guns and cannons firingB
To see brave men rush up to deathC
Without a sign or trace of terrorD
To give their country blood and breathC
But now I know it's all an errorD
War is a frightful thing I knowE
What if my boy should have to goE
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Last night I leaned above his cribF
And spent a little while in playingB
tickled him beneath his bibF
And watched his little body swayingB
With innocent delight and thenG
It seemed I heard the noise of battleH
The wails and shrieks of dying menG
The cannons' boom the muskets' rattleH
And shuddered as I stooped down lowE
What if my babe some day must goE
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War did not seem a splendid thingB
There was no glory in the fightingB
No thrill in hearing bullets singB
No joy in men each other smitingB
I saw but heartache and the graveI
And misery and desolationJ
As splendid fellows bold and braveI
Were sacrificed unto the nationJ
I wept with men of long agoB
Whose boys marched out to face the foeB
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I used to think that war was grandK
That bugle calls were splendid thrillingB
But now I know and understandK
They sound the message to start killingB
And when I ponder now on warA
'Tis but to see the terror of itL
The glory that I saw beforeA
Has vanished in the error of itL
War may have seemed a brilliant showB
It's different when your own may goB

Edgar Albert Guest



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